Welcome to Newslip. I'm Wesley Gerrard and here are the stories making this week's news.
The first trial against a member of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge has got underway. During the 1970s, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge swept to power in Cambodia and in their extreme communist revolution over 1.7 million people died. A UN backed tribunal sitting in Phnom Penh is allowing Comrade Duch to explain his activities as head of the notorious S-21 Tuol Sleng prison and interrogation centre where at least 14000 citizens were tortured to death. Four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders are also waiting to stand trial.
North Korea proceeded with their rocket launch and claimed that it successfully delivered a satellite to space. However, US and South Korean analysts monitoring the launch claim that it was unsuccessful and that the rocket, including payload, didn't make orbit but plunged into the Pacific. The North Koreans claim that their leaders songs are now broadcasting across the globe from space but it is unlikely that they would admit failure to their own people. An emergency meeting of the UN security council is convening to address the issue amid claims that the launch breached the ballistic missile ban currently imposed on North Korea by a UN security resolution.
A police academy in eastern Pakistan was attacked by gunmen armed with grenades and assault rifles. 40 people were killed and up to eighty injured in the attack on the outskirts of Lahore. The attack demonstrates how susceptible Pakistan is to militant attacks and is the latest in a string of attacks by radical Pakistanis which last month saw the Sri Lankan cricket team come under siege. There is a growing Taliban element within Pakistan and terrorist networks are rife throughout the country.
A Super Puma helicopter has crashed into the North Sea, killing all sixteen people on board. The chopper was retunring from BP's Miller oil platform when it crashed off the Aberdeenshire coast. Initially only half the bodies were recovered, but later searches found the wreckage of the helicopter on the seabed and now fifteen of the sixteen bodies have been collected. The black box recorder was also discovered which it is hoped will be able to provide clues as to what caused the tragic accident.
Mass protests occurred in London during the duration of the G20 summit. A man, Ian Tomlinson, died during the protests after suffering a heart attack. There were 120 arrests as protesters clashed with police. About 5000 people were involved in the demonstrations, of which about 500 were according to police, 'hardcore troublemakers'. The police tactics regarding the demonstrators have been called into question. The worst attack by the protesters was on the RBS building.
President Obama wooed the NATO summit in Paris and managed to acquire fresh committment of European troops to Afghanistan. Other than Afghanistan, which dominated the meeting, there was controversy when Turkey initally opposed the new Danish secretary general of NATO due to the ongoing row between Denmark and the Islamic world following the publication of blasphemous cartoons in Denmark several years ago. The Turks backed down though, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen was voted in.
A man has shot dead thirteen people at a New York State immigration centre. Jiverly Wong, a forty-one year old Vietnamese immigrant, just walked into the building in Binghamton and opened fire without saying a word. It is believed that he had recently lost his job and was having difficulties speaking English. Most of his victims were immigrants from the centre, many of whom were attending English lessons. The attack came to a conclusion when the gunman apparently turned his gun on himself.
A new law being passed in Afghanistan has upset NATO countries supplying troops to the region. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Western journalists not to misinterpret the law which they believe infringes upon women's rights and is thus incompatible with the beliefs of Western troops. The new law states that a wife must have sexual intercourse with her husband every four days and cannot leave the home without her husband's permission. It has been claimed that the law legalises rape within a marriage. Mr Karzai has ordered for a judicial review of the law to take place.
A US judge has blocked the deportation of a Nazi war criminal to Germany to face charges for his activities whist a concentration camp guard in occupied Poland during the Second World War. 89 year old John Demjanjuk has pleaded that the deportation order would constitute torture. The Ukrainian ineternational has previously been sentenced to death in Israel for war crimes, but a mistaken aidentity allowed him to return to the USA where he has lived since 1952. His citizenship was revoked after he apparently lied on his application form about working for the Nazis. This has precipitated the current deportation crisis.
And this week's top story...
Leaders of the World's most powerful nations converged on London for the G20 summit. Top of the agenda at the meeting was how to solve the global economic crisis. In total 1 trillion dollars was pledged to the ailing economy, much specifically to suffering, less-developed economies.
A complete plan for global financial restructuring was agreed that hopes to promote world trade and prevent protectionism. The meeting was unusual in that emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia and China demonstrated their strength and refused to be subjected to old Anglo-American dominance of the G20 meetings.
That's all for this Newslip. Thanks for tuning in. See you again soon. Goodbye.
The first trial against a member of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge has got underway. During the 1970s, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge swept to power in Cambodia and in their extreme communist revolution over 1.7 million people died. A UN backed tribunal sitting in Phnom Penh is allowing Comrade Duch to explain his activities as head of the notorious S-21 Tuol Sleng prison and interrogation centre where at least 14000 citizens were tortured to death. Four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders are also waiting to stand trial.
North Korea proceeded with their rocket launch and claimed that it successfully delivered a satellite to space. However, US and South Korean analysts monitoring the launch claim that it was unsuccessful and that the rocket, including payload, didn't make orbit but plunged into the Pacific. The North Koreans claim that their leaders songs are now broadcasting across the globe from space but it is unlikely that they would admit failure to their own people. An emergency meeting of the UN security council is convening to address the issue amid claims that the launch breached the ballistic missile ban currently imposed on North Korea by a UN security resolution.
A police academy in eastern Pakistan was attacked by gunmen armed with grenades and assault rifles. 40 people were killed and up to eighty injured in the attack on the outskirts of Lahore. The attack demonstrates how susceptible Pakistan is to militant attacks and is the latest in a string of attacks by radical Pakistanis which last month saw the Sri Lankan cricket team come under siege. There is a growing Taliban element within Pakistan and terrorist networks are rife throughout the country.
A Super Puma helicopter has crashed into the North Sea, killing all sixteen people on board. The chopper was retunring from BP's Miller oil platform when it crashed off the Aberdeenshire coast. Initially only half the bodies were recovered, but later searches found the wreckage of the helicopter on the seabed and now fifteen of the sixteen bodies have been collected. The black box recorder was also discovered which it is hoped will be able to provide clues as to what caused the tragic accident.
Mass protests occurred in London during the duration of the G20 summit. A man, Ian Tomlinson, died during the protests after suffering a heart attack. There were 120 arrests as protesters clashed with police. About 5000 people were involved in the demonstrations, of which about 500 were according to police, 'hardcore troublemakers'. The police tactics regarding the demonstrators have been called into question. The worst attack by the protesters was on the RBS building.
President Obama wooed the NATO summit in Paris and managed to acquire fresh committment of European troops to Afghanistan. Other than Afghanistan, which dominated the meeting, there was controversy when Turkey initally opposed the new Danish secretary general of NATO due to the ongoing row between Denmark and the Islamic world following the publication of blasphemous cartoons in Denmark several years ago. The Turks backed down though, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen was voted in.
A man has shot dead thirteen people at a New York State immigration centre. Jiverly Wong, a forty-one year old Vietnamese immigrant, just walked into the building in Binghamton and opened fire without saying a word. It is believed that he had recently lost his job and was having difficulties speaking English. Most of his victims were immigrants from the centre, many of whom were attending English lessons. The attack came to a conclusion when the gunman apparently turned his gun on himself.
A new law being passed in Afghanistan has upset NATO countries supplying troops to the region. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Western journalists not to misinterpret the law which they believe infringes upon women's rights and is thus incompatible with the beliefs of Western troops. The new law states that a wife must have sexual intercourse with her husband every four days and cannot leave the home without her husband's permission. It has been claimed that the law legalises rape within a marriage. Mr Karzai has ordered for a judicial review of the law to take place.
A US judge has blocked the deportation of a Nazi war criminal to Germany to face charges for his activities whist a concentration camp guard in occupied Poland during the Second World War. 89 year old John Demjanjuk has pleaded that the deportation order would constitute torture. The Ukrainian ineternational has previously been sentenced to death in Israel for war crimes, but a mistaken aidentity allowed him to return to the USA where he has lived since 1952. His citizenship was revoked after he apparently lied on his application form about working for the Nazis. This has precipitated the current deportation crisis.
And this week's top story...
Leaders of the World's most powerful nations converged on London for the G20 summit. Top of the agenda at the meeting was how to solve the global economic crisis. In total 1 trillion dollars was pledged to the ailing economy, much specifically to suffering, less-developed economies.
A complete plan for global financial restructuring was agreed that hopes to promote world trade and prevent protectionism. The meeting was unusual in that emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia and China demonstrated their strength and refused to be subjected to old Anglo-American dominance of the G20 meetings.
That's all for this Newslip. Thanks for tuning in. See you again soon. Goodbye.
